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Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals
The Great Game of Life
1st Edition - October 26, 2016
Author: Henry R. Hermann
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780128053720
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eBook ISBN:9780128092958
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Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopoli…Read more
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Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways. The book walks us through aggression in other social species, compares and contrasts human behavior to other animals, and then explores specific human behaviors like bullying, abuse, territoriality murder, and war. The book examines both individual and group aggression in different environments including work, school, and the home. It explores common stressors triggering aggressive behaviors, and how individual personalities can be vulnerable to, or resistant to, these stressors. The book closes with an exploration of the cumulative impact of human aggression and dominance on the natural world.
Reviews the influence of evolution, genetics, biochemistry, and nurture on aggression
Explores aggression in multiple species, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals
Compares human and animal aggressive and dominant behavior
Examines bullying, abuse, territoriality, murder, and war
Includes nonaggressive behavior in displays of respect and tolerance
Highlights aggression triggers from drugs to stress
Discusses individual and group behavior, including organizations and nations
Probes dominance and aggression in religion and politics
Translates the impact of human behavior over time on the natural world
Researchers in social psychology and evolutionary psychology
Dedication
Biography
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Dominant Species on Planet Earth
Chapter 1. Defining Dominance and Aggression
Dominance
Dominance in Biology, Anthropology, and Psychology
Dominance and Sociality
Social Dominance
Dominance in Game Theory
Dominance in Ecology
Aggression
Human Aggression
Is Aggression Inherited or Learned?
Origin of Aggression
Dominance and Aggression
Benefits and Detriments of Being Dominant
Dominance in Humans
Chapter 2. Traits of Dominant Animals
Gregariousness
Issues Concerning Social Animals
Burying Beetles
Social Issues
Dominance Struggles, Characteristic of All Social Animals
The Nature of Social Species
Relationship to Other Social Species
Benefits and Detriments of Dominance and Subordinance
Dominance in Polistes annularis Colonies
Degrees of Dominance
Importance of Dominance in Other Animals
Other Social Traits
Selfishness (Psychological Egoism)
Deception
Human Deception
Cooperation and Agonistic Behavior
Altruism
Reciprocity
Territoriality
Morality
Immorality and Amorality
Religious Morals
Divergence From Moral Behaviors
Morality and Nonreligious Beliefs
Redefining Dominance
Redefining Aggression
Personality
Chapter 3. The Significance of Comparative Studies
Attributes Shared With Other Organisms
Investigations on Other Animals
Chapter 4. Social Nonprimate Animals
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Reptiles
Chapter 5. From Whence We Came: Primates
The Rise of Primates and Their Prosimian Beginnings
Prosimians
Simians
Chapter 6. The Human Animal
Where Did Contemporary Humans Come From?
Humans and the Earth They Live Upon
Development and Evolution of the Earth
Life on Earth
Mutations, Diversification, and Natural Selection
Rise and Fall of Dominant Forms
Chapter 7. Similarities Between Humans and Other Living Organisms
Humans as Social Animals
Fossils and Dating
Comparing Homologous Structures and Their Chemistry
Biogeography
Population Change
Basic Biological Fundamentals and Their Origins
Significance of the Brain
Development of the Human Brain
The Animal Becomes Human
Chapter 8. Human Nature
The Rise of Advanced Hominines
Mammalian Anatomical Features Found in Primates
Behavioral Traits Shared With Other Animals
Anatomical Traits Shared Between Humans and Other Primates
Distinctly Human Anatomical Traits
Distinctly Human Behavioral Traits
Emotions
Personality
The Betterment of Humankind
Humans in a Complex World
Evolution of Philosophical Thinking in Humans
Nature Versus Nurture
Human Behavioral Features
Variation, the Hallmark of Human Culture
Chapter 9. Alternate Human Behavior
Mental Illness
Psychopathic Behavior
Scale of Evil
Love
Respect
Falling Out of Love
Stalking
Tolerance
Adultery
Hate and Hatred
Hatred and Hate Groups
Who Are Hated?
Gangs
Terrorists
Chapter 10. The Chemical, Physical, and Genetic Nature of Dominance
Relationship Between Brain Structure and Function
Anatomical Variations in the Brain
Genetics and Aggression
Chemistry and Aggression
Physical and Congenital Anomalies
Substance Abuse
Environmental Factors and Drugs
Neural Tissue Damage and Modification
Chapter 11. Dominance and Aggression in the Workplace
Conflict in the Workplace
The Serial Bully
Toxic Leaders
Chapter 12. Dominance in Religion
The Beginnings of Religion
Theistic Systems
Chapter 13. Dominance in Politics
The Power of Politics
Toxic Leadership
Chapter 14. Human Aggression: Killing and Abuse
Killing
Fishing
Overfishing
Hunting
Wildlife Exploitation
The Pet Trade
Chapter 15. Killing Humans
Abuse to Humans and Other Animals
Warfare
Human Warfare
Origin of Aggressive Behavior in Humans
Chapter 16. Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?
Changes in Humans and Their Environment
Language
Acquiring Innovative Skills
Contemporary Humans
Opening the Can of Worms
Dominant Life Forms on Earth Through Geological Time
The Industrial Revolution and Technological Expertise
Establishing Marine Dead Zones
Human and Other Animal Body Wastes
Other Animal-Related Problems
Global Warming and Climate Change
Anthropogenic Influences
Chapter 17. Attempts to Save the Natural World
Worldwide Intergovernmental Organizations
Regional Organizations
Worldwide Environmental Protection Groups
United States Environmental Groups
Florida’s Attempt to Restore Its Natural Environment
A Need for More Concern
Love Canal Environmental Disaster
The Baia Mare Cyanide and Heavy Metal Spill
The Complex Human
Chapter 18. The Nature of Things
A Transforming Earth
What This Book Has Attempted to Do
Criticism of Science by Antiscience Personalities
Our Ultimate Fate
Appendix
References
Glossary
Index
No. of pages: 396
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: October 26, 2016
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780128053720
eBook ISBN: 9780128092958
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Henry R. Hermann
H. R. Hermann has been a biological researcher and university professor for over 50 years, focusing primarily on the fields of behavior, morphology and evolution. He has numerous publications, including over 20 books and nine book chapters on a wide variety of subjects. As editor and author of four Academic Press books on social insects between 1979 and 1982 and a book on insect defenses by Praeger Scientific, he played an important role in facilitating an understanding of animalistic social behavior and opening the door for further investigation in that field. He has studied social interactions in organisms from ants and wasps to humans and has published on human behavior with several papers and a historical and behavioral account of Native American music in Making the Wind Sing, Native American Music and the Connected Breath. Undergraduate studies were at New Orleans University and graduate school was completed at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. As a professor and researcher of defensive systems in social species, he spent 30 years in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia where he taught a wide variety of courses, including evolution, medical biology, social behavior, histology and comparative morphology. He currently teaches human anatomy and physiology at Florida SouthWestern State College in Ft. Myers, FL, and is carrying out research on social species in that area.
Affiliations and expertise
Florida Southwestern State College, LaBelle, FL, USA
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